Saturday, January 3, 2009

Blast from the Past #60 repost: Donatello and Montana Moo

My good pal Ryan Brown (who, sadly, I do not see very much these days... but I do read his blog!) realized a longtime dream of his when, back in the 1990's, his "CowBoys" concept was made into a toy line, animated series, and a whole bunch of merchandise under the name "Wild West Cowboys of Moo Mesa". I drew this piece featuring Donatello and one of Ryan's characters, Montana Moo, as the basis for a congratulatory card for Ryan.

And here's the "cyberinked" and computer-colored version of this drawing which I sent to Ryan. -- PL

3 comments:

I'm not sure how I didn't discover your blog until now, but wow! It's truly a time warp to see original art from the comics I grew up reading. I'm sure I'm not the first "almost 30-something" to say this, but the Turtles made a huge impact on me when I was a kid. I started drawing right around the time the series hit the airwaves (I was about 9)...and I truly built my drawing chops drawing the Turtles. Day in and day out, throughout most of my childhood.

I'm now a cartoonist, working as an animator and illustrator in Boston. I draw my own comics, as well.

I was just home visiting my folks in Maine over Christmas and rediscovered all the sketchbooks and comics I drew as a kid, and just posted a bunch of my Turtle drawings over at my own blog:

Something is lost in the colored version, me think. I just love the BW one though...

Just an FYI, thanks to Murphs Blog, I was able to attend the Rutgers TMNT record breaking event last year. I just uploaded a better HD version now that I know what I'm doing with the software. This was the first HD event I ever recorded...

http://www.vimeo.com/886337

Is the new record breaking event going to be held in NY? I'm guessing that is what the Javitz center april appearance will be?